INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (FINAL EXAM) UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Norms are - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social rules that specify appropriate behavior in a given
situation
Achieved status is a social position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅That individuals secure on the basis of
choice and competition
A subculture is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A group whose members participate in the main culture of
a society, while simultaneously sharing a number of unique values, norms, traditions, and lifestyles
Any violation of norms, whether good or bad is called - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Deviance
A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social inequality
Some elements of our society are socially constructed such as the social institutions, formal
organizations, and bureaucracies. Which of the following is not a social construction? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Ethnic groups
Gender groups
Racial groups
All of the above are social constructions
A society is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A group of people who live within the same territory and
share a common culture
Sociologists such as George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and Charles Horton Cooley believed that the
development of the self - what makes us unique - is a result of - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Our
interaction with others
, If a person refuses to hire members of a particular ethnic group not because of a personal dislike of that
ethnic group, but because he or she fear business clients will go elsewhere, this is - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Discrimination without prejudice
Mores are - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Norms to which people attach a good deal of importance and
expect strict conformity
Which of the following is NOT, by sociologists, regarded as a characteristic of a minority group? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅There are fewer of them than there are members of the dominant group
Ethnocentrism refers to - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Belief that one's culture is "the best"; therefore,
will tend to judge the behaviors of other groups by the standards of one's own culture
Socialization is the process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Of social interaction by which people acquire
the knowledge, values, and behaviors essential for effective participation in society.
A key element in sociological imagination is the ability to view one's society - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅As an outsider
Which term is used to refer to the principle instruments/means whereby the essential tasks (functional
prerequisites) of living are organized, directed, and executed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social
institutions
A proposition that can be tested to determine its validity is known as a - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Hypothesis
Social constructs and social definitions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Imply that meanings are produced
in social interactions
Which sociological perspective would view society as a system or living organism in which each
part/component is related to each other and contributes to its overall survival and stability? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Functionalist perspective
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Norms are - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social rules that specify appropriate behavior in a given
situation
Achieved status is a social position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅That individuals secure on the basis of
choice and competition
A subculture is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A group whose members participate in the main culture of
a society, while simultaneously sharing a number of unique values, norms, traditions, and lifestyles
Any violation of norms, whether good or bad is called - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Deviance
A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social inequality
Some elements of our society are socially constructed such as the social institutions, formal
organizations, and bureaucracies. Which of the following is not a social construction? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Ethnic groups
Gender groups
Racial groups
All of the above are social constructions
A society is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A group of people who live within the same territory and
share a common culture
Sociologists such as George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and Charles Horton Cooley believed that the
development of the self - what makes us unique - is a result of - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Our
interaction with others
, If a person refuses to hire members of a particular ethnic group not because of a personal dislike of that
ethnic group, but because he or she fear business clients will go elsewhere, this is - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Discrimination without prejudice
Mores are - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Norms to which people attach a good deal of importance and
expect strict conformity
Which of the following is NOT, by sociologists, regarded as a characteristic of a minority group? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅There are fewer of them than there are members of the dominant group
Ethnocentrism refers to - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Belief that one's culture is "the best"; therefore,
will tend to judge the behaviors of other groups by the standards of one's own culture
Socialization is the process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Of social interaction by which people acquire
the knowledge, values, and behaviors essential for effective participation in society.
A key element in sociological imagination is the ability to view one's society - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅As an outsider
Which term is used to refer to the principle instruments/means whereby the essential tasks (functional
prerequisites) of living are organized, directed, and executed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social
institutions
A proposition that can be tested to determine its validity is known as a - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Hypothesis
Social constructs and social definitions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Imply that meanings are produced
in social interactions
Which sociological perspective would view society as a system or living organism in which each
part/component is related to each other and contributes to its overall survival and stability? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Functionalist perspective
